CONTENTS. XVll 



coast — An honest Landlady — English Books and European 

 Fashions— Kindness of the country people — Taxing in kind 

 and taxing in money — The great Nobles' change of life 

 — Their slavish imitation of European costume — The Em- 

 press — Entertainment given by the Prince of Kii — A Day's 

 Shooting in a Preserve — Courtesy and Manner of the 

 People — Bathing Arrangements — Natives — Corrupted by 

 Foreigners — Picnics — Tea-houses — Fare — Quarrels — Burials 

 and Burial-places — Feasts — Population — Mortality — No 

 Lunatic Asylums nor Poor-houses — Diseases — Endurance — 

 Children — Reservoirs — Houses — Domestic Fowls — Modera- 

 tion — Sobriety — A jovial Priest — Missions and Missionaries 

 — The Romish Priest — Protestant Missionaries — Drunken- 

 ness and Civilisation — Evil effects of European example 



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CHAPTER XIL 



Korea, Russian — An inhospitable reception — The Sylvia sent to 

 the Korea — Chosan — A couple of hours' sport — A new bay 

 — An official visit — Surveying under difficulties — A missing 

 Boat — An effective interruption to the Survey — The return 

 of the Boat, and return to Head-quarters — Re- ordered to 

 Korea — The South-west Corner — Surveying under Arms — A 

 polite old Man — ^A native House — Absence of Temples, etc. 

 — Women — Roughness of the People — Mackau Islands — 

 Scarcity of animal life — Seals at sea and Bats on shore — The 

 Inhabitants, Cattle, Harbour, and Coasts — Goto Islands — 

 An old Christian Colony — A legendary submerged Island — 

 Goatsucker — Swifts — Japanese Nightingale — Nosaki Sima 

 — Difficulty in obtaining Quarters — The obliging Widow 



Pages 235-255 



